"You are before Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq. I am...

May 16, 2006

"You are before Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq. I am the president of Iraq according to the will of the Iraqis and I am still the president up to this moment." -- Saddam Hussein in refusing to plead guilty or not guilty to murder, torture of women and children, and the illegal arrest of 399 people at his trial. "We were just an average American family thinking about maybe a summer vacation this year and now we're homeless. We take turns crying, and we take turns trying to bolster each other." -- Yetta Chin, whose family lost their home in Maine due to flooding from the nearby Mousam River.